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Although happy to be given the retrospective collection, she didn't court the attention.
In retrospective studies, rates for acute allergic reactions range from 23 to 56 percent, with even higher rates for delayed serum sickness.
A retrospective analysis of audiometric data and medical records provided the basis for description of surgical outcomes.
Dresden isn't a retrospective re-creation, because it exists in a separate continuum from the events that formed it.
After a retrospective release the band finally relented after 28 years of playing possum.
Planners took a dim view of the situation and refused retrospective planning permission for the display.
Each article is prefaced by an autobiographical account of its genesis and by other retrospective thoughts.
In retrospective studies comparing patellar tendon and hamstring tendon autografts, few significant differences were found overall.
Again, retrospective epidemiological investigation showed that this patient had infected several contacts.
It is a painting that is not a retrospective on Manet's own Baudelairean years.
Far from marking any new direction, it is a retrospective, scattershot double CD of unreleased tracks, alternate mixes and rare B-sides.
There is conflicting case law on whether a private placement can be given retrospective authorization.
The terminal date of 1914 offers a retrospective view of developments during the previous half-century.
This retrospective focuses entirely on works held in British collections, spanning portraits, still lifes and landscapes.
So, in effect, they're treating the ninth of September like the first of January, doing a twelve month retrospective.
In retrospective surveys on their medicative process, throughout the therapy only 3 outpatients were recognized as the non-compliant cases.
These results are consistent with retrospective reports of infant irritability, insomnia, and colic among inhibited children.
You can look forward to some retrospective travel notes, complaints about summer TV and other incisive, analytical gems.
Both sets of trials have been clouded in uncertainty due to a recent constitutional amendment which prohibits retrospective prosecution.
We presented the results of the retrospective audit to the clinicians at two district general hospitals.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was silence for a moment, and one after another met my roving glance with a thoughtful, self-involved and retrospective eye.
Our critics seem on the other hand, to wish to universalize the retrospective type of instance.
By a retrospective law, roose was sentenced to be boiled to death, which was done accordingly.
In all cases the legitimation is retrospective, taking effect from the birth of the child.
Like many of Lucian's compositions, it has what may be termed a retrospective and resumptive value.
Copernicus shook his head sadly, with retrospective sadness.
Next week, Paul releases a retrospective album of his label Perfecto, which has been going for 25 years.
Let's hope that this gem of a show and its fine catalogue galvanise Tate into staging a long-overdue retrospective, that Vaughan deserves.
The shrinking of her auditress stopped her for a moment in her flow of words, delivered in a retrospective gloomy voice.
Wherein, then, lay the resemblance that made the young man's heart beat with a kind of retrospective excitement?
Marlow smiled his retrospective smile which was kind as though he bore no grudge against people he used to know.
A pre-Elizabethan dietetic millennium is a retrospective mirage.
What a painful reverse may not the retrospective view afford!
How do the deeds of ill Throng round the retrospective glance!
He looked out to sea with a meditative and retrospective mind.
A historical interest may be not only retrospective but contemporary.
Robert Glenn Ketchun has come to New York City to promote his new book, the Legacy of Wildness, a retrospective of 20 years of his work photographing American landscapes.
Then, as she remained silent, and seemed to be losing herself in retrospective meditation upon her perfect respectability, he ventured upon a short cut to his goal.
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